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Training and Education for Applicators on Spray Drift Management

Describes how pesticide applicators can obtain training and education on spray drift management and how EPA supports development and implementation of such programs.

Letter from Former Administrator Pruitt on Meeting to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposure

Former Administrator Pruitt has formally invited members of the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children to a meeting to discuss next steps in developing a federal strategy to reduce childhood lead exposure.

EPA Takes Aggressive Actions Against Citrus Greening While Maintaining Public Health and Environmental Protections

Today, EPA is announcing two actions to help protect America’s citrus industry from citrus greening and citrus canker disease.

EPA to Sunset Temporary Disinfectant Supply Chain Flexibilities

In 2020, EPA introduced regulatory flexibilities to ensure that critical antimicrobial products remained available as the country responded to the COVID-19 public health emergency.

November 6, 2017, Virtual Meeting on the Charge Questions for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) Meeting on Endocrine Disruption

This virtual FIFRA SAP meeting will be discus questions on Continuing Development of Alternative High-Throughput Screens to Determine Endocrine Disruption, focusing on Androgen Receptor, Steroidogenesis, and Thyroid Pathways

Types of Pesticide Ingredients

Pesticide active ingredients are described by the types of pests they control or how they work. For example, algicides kill algae, biopesticides are derived from natural materials, and insecticides kill insects.

Inert Ingredients - Reassessment Decision Documents: A

Find completed inert ingredient tolerance reassessment decision documents starting with A.

Test Guideline Methods for Bed Bug Pesticide Products Now Available

EPA’s final test guidelines, 810.3900 - Laboratory Product Performance Testing Methods for Bed Bug Pesticide Products, provides recommendations for the design and execution of laboratory studies to evaluate the performance of pesticide products.

EPA Releases Guidance on a Voluntary Pilot Program to Reduce Animal Testing

EPA is announcing the start of a voluntary pilot program to evaluate the usefulness and acceptability of a mathematical tool that estimates the toxicological classification of a chemical, which is used in the GHS.

EPA Holds Online Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee Meeting in May

Online public meeting of the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC) on May 12-13, 2021

EPA Proposes Registration of Product Containing New Microbial Active Ingredient

EPA is opening a 15-day comment period on a proposal to register a pesticide product, Vintec, that contains the new microbial active ingredient Trichoderma atroviride strain SC1 (T. atroviride SC1).

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Meeting on Proposed Guidelines for Efficacy Testing of Certain Flea and Tick Products

On April 15, 2019, EPA published a Federal Register notice announcing a meeting of the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) on June 11-14, 2019.

EPA Extends Comment Period for Meeting Materials and Opens Comment Period for Candidates being Considered to Serve as Ad Hoc Members for the May 8-10, 2018, FIFRA SAP Meeting

EPA is extending the written public comment period for all docketed peer review materials, including the charge questions, for the May 8-10 Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)

FIFRA SAP Meeting Minutes and Final Report for November 2019 Meeting on Approaches for Quantitative Use of Surface Water Monitoring Data in Pesticide Drinking Water Assessments

The meeting minutes and final report for the November 19 to 21, 2019, FIFRA SAP face-to-face meeting regarding "Approaches for Quantitative Use of Surface Water Monitoring Data in Pesticide Drinking Water Assessments," is now available.